More on Ex 3

In this try i thought i would attempt to make the tubes overlap instead of coming together. To do this i offset another surface, then altered the script to run the grid in the u dircection of one surface and the v direction for the other surface.

Ex 3

This is the same defintion but now altered to only do one surface. The nice part about using this script is that i could continually change the grid spacing to get the proportions I liked. Then I did not have to manually pipe each one of the lines, this saved a lot of time.

Space Frame

I found this defintion for Grasshopper while looking for connection details. I then added the pipe command to get the finished product. This became useful for me as a starting point to change the definiton for my own purposes.

Ex. 3

Korkeasaari Lookout Tower

Mannheim - Frei Otto

Swissbau Pavilion

The Swissbau Pavilion was built to present the current state of research on «digital production chains» at the ETH Zurich’s CAAD-chair. The spherical dome with its asymmetrically placed openings is assembled from more than 300 individual wooden frames. An interactive growth simulation optimized the structural mesh in accordance to the openings and constructional requirements, following which the 1,200 elements were automatically detailed and prepared for fabrication on a 5-axis router.